Photomontage

tool: Adobe Photoshop

Purpose: 

Adobe Photoshop is an editor for still images. It is equipped with a diverse range of processing tools, enabling users to create or modify content through the use of drawing tools, filters, or other plug-ins.

Features: 

• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
• Photoshop functionality can be extended by add-on programs called Photoshop plugins which act like mini-editors that modify the image.
• Can utilise the colour models RGB, lab, CMKY, Greyscale, binary bitmap and duotone.
• Reads and writes raster and vector image formats

A&H use case 1 description: 
“The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland” project has used Adobe Photoshop to edit digital images in both TIFF and high JPG formats of Romanesque sculpture in Britain.
Publisher: 
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Creator: 
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Specifications: 
JPEG
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
Bitmap (BMP)
Adobe Illustrator (AI)
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Fireworks
Data analysis: 
Image feature measurement
Image segmentation
Visualisation
Data capture: 
2d scanning and photography
Communication and collaboration: 
Graphical interaction (asynchronous)
Software/programming languages used: 
Adobe Photoshop LE
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe photoshop Elements
Suite: 
Adobe
Data structuring and enhancement: 
2d modelling - raster
2d modelling - vector
3d modelling - interactive
3d modelling - vector
Graphical rendering
Image enhancement
Image restoration
Photogrammetry
Alternate tool(s): 

GraphicConverter, 36-image converter

Tags: 
Image enhancement
Image manipulation
Photoshop
Photo editing
Practice-led research: 
2d graphic design
2d illustration
3d graphic design
3d modelling - vector
3d scanning
Photography
Image manipulation
Photomontage
Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X
Licence: 
commercial
lifecycleStage: 
creation
By Valentina Asciutti at Tue, 02/02/2010 - 17:32

tool: Adobe Pagemaker

Purpose: 

PageMaker was the first desktop publishing (DTP) program, introduced in 1985. The last version is PageMaker 7.0 released in July 2001. In 2004, Adobe announced that development for Adobe PageMaker had ceased but that Adobe would continue to sell and support it. InDesign is presented as the successor product.

Features: 

• Automatically rearrange a document’s pages into printer spreads for professional printing
• Automatically create and style bulleted and numbered lists
• Create customised publications (e.g. catalogues, business cards)
• Resize and move images and their frames or reposition content in relation to frames using the “Position tool”

A&H use case 1 description: 
The corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture utilise Pagemaker during the production of project documentation.
Creator: 
Aldus Corporation (in early versions), Adobe Systems Incorporated
Publisher: 
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Specifications: 
Portable Document Format (PDF)
QuarkXpress Document (QXD)
Adobe InDesign (INDD)
Adobe Photoshop Document (PSD)
Adobe Illustrator (AI)
Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft Word document
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Graphical rendering
Image enhancement
Image restoration
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Desktop publishing and pre-press
Software/programming languages used: 
Adobe Pagemaker
Adobe Table
Suite: 
Adobe
Practice-led research: 
2d graphic design
2d illustration
Image manipulation
Photomontage
Alternate tool(s): 

Adobe InDesign

Tags: 
design
graphics
Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X
Licence: 
commercial
lifecycleStage: 
publishing
By Valentina Asciutti at Wed, 20/01/2010 - 16:24

tool: Adobe InDesign

Purpose: 

InDesign is a desktop publishing (DTP) software application which can be used to create periodical publications, posters, flyers, brochures, magazines and books.
The latest version, InDesign CS4 Server (codenamed Thyme), is the tenth generation in the product line.

Features: 

• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
• Dynamic cross-reference support that updates content when moved within a document
• Spread rotation
• Smart guides (Quickly align space, rotate, and resize single or multiple objects with the help of dynamic guides.)
• Conditional text (Deliver multiple versions of a document for different users, all from a single Adobe InDesign source file. Hide text at paragraph, word, and even character level without relying on layers. The remaining text and anchored objects automatically reflow in the layout.)
• Smart Text Reflow (Automatically add pages at the end of a story, selection, or document when text is overset using this new preference.)
• Live Preflight

A&H use case 1 description: 
Interpreting The Bible and its Visual Expression Within the Cultural Landscape of Wales used Adobe InDesign to process Welsh artwork created in the 19th and 20th century that depicts biblical scenes and characters.
Creator: 
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Publisher: 
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Specifications: 
Portable Document Format (PDF)
Unicode
Macromedia Flash Video (FLV)
Small Web Format (SWF)
QuarkXpress Document (QXD)
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Graphical rendering
Image enhancement
Image restoration
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Desktop publishing and pre-press
Software/programming languages used: 
Adobe InDesign
Suite: 
Adobe
Practice-led research: 
2d graphic design
2d illustration
Image manipulation
Photomontage
Alternate tool(s): 

QuarkXpress

Tags: 
design
graphics
Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X
Licence: 
commercial
lifecycleStage: 
publishing
By Valentina Asciutti at Wed, 20/01/2010 - 16:04

tool: Adobe Illustrator

Purpose: 

Adobe Illustrator is a comprehensive vector graphics environment that is ideal for all creative professionals, including web and interactive designers and developers, multimedia producers, motion graphics and visual effects designers, animators, and video professionals. The latest version, Illustrator CS4, is the fourteenth generation in the product line.

Features: 

• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
• Raster and type-in vector format support

A&H use case 1 description: 
The Inscriptions of Aphrodisias project used Adobe Illustrator to manipulate resources associated with Greek inscriptions from Aphrodisias in Caria.
A&H use case 2 description: 
The North Sea Palaeolandscapes project used Adobe Illustrator during the production of visual data for use by the geological and archaeological community.
A&H use case 3 description: 
The British Town maps project used Adobe Illustrator to manipulate graphical data produced between 1470 and 1895.
Publisher: 
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Creator: 
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Practice-led research: 
2d graphic design
2d illustration
Photomontage
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Graphical rendering
Image enhancement
Image restoration
Suite: 
Adobe
Specifications: 
JPEG
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
Portable Document Format (PDF)
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
Bitmap (BMP)
Rich Text Format (RTF)
Unicode
Adobe Freehand
CorelDraw image (CDR)
Windows MetaFile (WMF)
PhotoShop Document (PSD)
Autodesk Drawing eXchange Format (DXF)
TrueType
Plug-in support
Microsoft Word document
Data analysis: 
Image feature measurement
Image segmentation
Visualisation
Tags: 
design
graphics
raster
vector
Alternate tool(s): 

Corel Draw

Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X
Licence: 
commercial
lifecycleStage: 
creation
publishing
Software/programming languages used: 
Adobe Illustrator
By Valentina Asciutti at Wed, 20/01/2010 - 15:29

project: The Personalised Surface within Fine Art Digital Printmaking

Grant Holder: Professor Paul Coldwell
Is it possible to create a personalised surface within fine art digital printmaking? This project seeks to consider and explore the way artists working now are dealing with the given surface of inkjet and what implications does this have for the role of print within an artists overall output. [read more]

project: The Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles

Grant Holder: Professor Janis Jefferies
The Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles is an independent Centre situated within Goldsmiths, University of London. Our mission is to become a leading international Resource and Research Centre for the study, promotion and dissemination of the collections we hold. We aim to capitalize on our unique position as the only Research and Resource Centre within a University environment that exclusively documents, promotes and fosters the pioneering history of textiles at Goldsmiths from the 1940s to the present day. [read more]

project: Interpreting The Bible and its Visual Expression Within the Cultural Landscape of Wales 1825-1975

Grant Holder: Dr Martin O Kane
The Imaging the Bible in Wales Research Project seeks to record a wide range of artwork from Wales during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that depicts biblical scenes and characters. The Bible has played a vital role in the religious and cultural life of Wales, and the project seeks to interpret the social, political and theological issues that the artworks raise. [read more]

project: Palaeopathology and the origins and evolution of horse husbandry

Grant Holder: Professor Graeme Barker
A collaborative, interdisciplinary project, rooted in archaeology and employing veterinary science to identify osteological differences between riding, traction and free-living horses, resulting from their different life-ways, in order to further our understanding of the origins and evolution of horse husbandry. Two analytical methods are employed: 1) A detailed comparative study of skeletons from a wide range of sources, both modern and ancient. We are examining samples from 3 populations of modern horses (free-living Exmoor ponies, Lithuanian draught horses, and riding ponies. [read more]